Web Scraping
CheckedHelps with web development, web scraping as part of developing backend services and APIs workflows.
Install on your platform
Showing Claude Code. One command installs this skill into any of the agents below.
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Run this in your project
terminal$ npx skills add mindrally/skills --skill web-scraping -a claude-code Uses the open-source
skillsCLI and needs Node.js. Add-gto install it for your user instead of this project.
What we know about this skill
Publisher
mindrally
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Install target
Live repository
Not pinned. Installing fetches whatever the repository holds at the time you run the command.
Automated safety checks
This skill passed all 6 checks. We read its files at one commit and looked for the things that make a skill dangerous to run — not for whether it works.
Declares what it does: passed
SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.
SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.
No undeclared network calls: passed
Makes no network calls.
Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.
No obfuscated payloads: passed
No encoded or obfuscated payloads.
No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.
No credential access: passed
Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.
Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.
No pipe-to-shell installers: passed
No pipe-to-shell or download-and-run installers.
No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.
Pinned to a commit: passed
Scanned mindrally/skills at 7682ca7771.
The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.
- Commit
- 7682ca7771
- Manifest
- web-scraping/SKILL.md
- Scanned
- 1 file, 62 lines
About this skill
What it does
The mindrally-web-scraping skill enables AI agents to extract structured data from websites by parsing HTML and CSS elements. It supports dynamic rendering of JavaScript-heavy pages and can handle pagination, cookies, and headers for more accurate scraping.
When to use it
- Extract product listings or pricing information from e-commerce sites.
- Gather news articles or blog content for analysis or summarization.
- Monitor competitor websites for changes in service offerings or promotions.
Key capabilities
- Parsing HTML and CSS elements to extract data
- Handling JavaScript-rendered pages using headless browsers
- Managing cookies, headers, and session persistence
- Supporting pagination and recursive scraping
Example prompts
- "Scrape all product titles and prices from https://example-store.com/products"
- "Extract the latest 10 news headlines from https://news.example.com"
- "Monitor https://jobs.example.com for new job postings every hour"
Tips & gotchas
- Ensure compliance with website terms of service and robots.txt rules.
- Some sites may block scrapers using CAPTCHAs or rate limiting; consider using proxies or delays between requests.